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entity Updated 2026-07-24 Tags: Event, Rome, Assassination, Republicanism

Assassination of Julius Caesar / 恺撒遇刺

The assassination of Julius Caesar / 恺撒遇刺 is the central event of 124. 恺撒之死：历史的韵脚，是否已失效？. The episode places the killing on the Ides of March in 44 BCE at Pompey’s Curia, not in the popular image of the Capitoline temple, and treats the location as politically meaningful because it joined Senate setting, Pompey / 庞培’s memory, and older Roman anti-king symbolism.

The plot is presented as both principled and compromised. Marcus Brutus / 马库斯·布鲁图斯 gives the conspiracy republican symbolism; Gaius Cassius Longinus / 卡西乌斯 organizes opposition to dictatorship; Decimus Junius Brutus / 德奇姆斯 supplies practical access and persuades Caesar to attend. But the source also stresses fear, resentment, jealousy, miscalculation, and the failure to build a post-assassination political order.

The killing did not restore the [[RomanRepublic|Roman Republic]]. Caesar’s will, funeral, public anger, Mark Antony / 马克·安东尼’s reaction, and [[OctavianAugustus|Octavian]]’s inheritance turned the murder into a new phase of civil conflict that ended in the [[RomanEmpire|Roman Empire]].

125. 马拉之死：卑鄙的暗杀，或正义的处决？ uses the Caesar case as a comparison point for [[CharlotteCorday|Charlotte Corday]]’s assassination of [[JeanPaulMarat|Marat]]. The comparison is limited but important: both killings can preserve a political idea while failing to repair the institutions or movements that made one-person violence attractive.

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